What is Trial for more than one offence?. Section 220 of Code of Criminal Procedure 1973

Trial for more than one offence is defined under Section
220 of CRPC 1973. Provisions under
this section is:

Section
220 of CRPC
"Trial for more than one offence"

(1) If,
in one series of acts so connected together as to
form the same transaction, more offences than one
are committed by the same person, he may be charged
with, and tried at one trial for, every such
offence.

(2) When a person charged with one or more offences
of criminal breach of trust or dishonest
misappropriation of property as provided in
sub-section (2) of section 212 or in sub-section (1)
of section 219, is accused of committing, for the
purpose of facilitating or concealing the commission
of that offence or those offences, one or more
offences of falsification of accounts, he may be
charged with, and tried at one trial for, every such
offence.

(3) If
the acts alleged constitute an offence falling
within two or more separate definitions of any law
in force for the time being by which offences are
defined or punished, the person accused of them may
be charged with, and tried at one trial for, each of
such offences.

(4) If several acts, of which one or more than one
would by itself or themselves constitute an offence,
constitute when combined a different offence, the
person accused of them may be charged with, and
tried at one trial for the offence constituted by
such acts when combined, and for any offence
constituted by any one, or more, of such acts.

(5) Nothing contained in this section shall affect
section 71 of the Indian Penal Code(45 of 1860)

Illustrations to sub-section (1)

(a) A rescues B, a person in lawful custody, and in
so doing causes grievous hurt to C, a constable in
whose custody B was.A may be charged with, and
convicted of, offences under sections 225 and 333 of
the Indian Penal Code(45 of 1860).

(b) A commits house-breaking by day with intent to
commit adultery, and commits, in the house so
entered, adultery with B's wife.A may be separately
charged with, and convicted of, offences under
sections 454 and 497 of the Indian Penal Code (45 of
1860).

(c) A entices B, the wife of C, away from C, with
intent to commit adultery with B, and then commits
adultery with her.A may be separately charged with ,
and convicted of, offences under sections 498 and
497 of the Indian Penal Code(45 of 1860).

(d) A has in his possession several seals, knowing
them to be counterfeit and intending to use them for
the purpose of committing several forgeries
punishable under section 466 of the Indian Penal
Code(45 of 1860).A may be separately charged with,
and convicted of, the possession of each seal under
section 473 of the Indian Penal Code.

(e) With intent to cause injury to B, A institutes a
criminal proceeding against him, knowing that there
is no just or lawful ground for such proceeding, and
also falsely accuses B of having committed an
offence, knowing that there is no just or lawful
ground for such charge.A may be separately charged
with, and convicted of, two offences under section
211 of the Indian Penal Code(45 of 1860)

(f) A, with intent to cause injury to B, falsely
accuses him of having committed an offence, knowing
that there is no just or lawful ground for such
charge.On the trial, A gives false evidence against
B, intending thereby to cause B to be convicted of a
capital offence.A may be separately charged with,
and convicted of, offences under sections 211 and
194 of the Indian Penal Code(45 of 1860).

(g) A, with six others, commits the offences of
rioting, grievous hurt and assaulting a public
servant endeavouring in the discharge of his duty as
such to suppress the riot.A may be separately
charged with, and convicted of offences under
sections 147, 325 and 152 of the Indian Penal
Code(45 of 1860).

(h) A threatens B, C and D at the same time with
injury to their persons with intent to cause alarm
to them.A may be separately charged with, and
convicted of, each of the three offences under
section 506 of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860).

The separate charges referred to in Illustrations
(a) to (h), respectively, may be tried at the same
time.

(I) Where it is doubtful what offence has been
committed.- A wrongfully strikes B with a cane.A may
be separately charged with and convicted of,
offences under sections 352 and 323 of the Indian
Penal Code (45 of 1860).

(j) Several stolen sacks of corn are made over to A
and B, who knew they are stolen property, for the
purpose of concealing them.A and B thereupon
voluntarily assist each other to conceal the sacks
at the bottom of a grain-pit.A and B may be
separately charged with, and convicted of, offences
under sections 41 and 414 of the Indian Penal Code
(45 of 1860).

(k) A exposes her child with the knowledge that she
is thereby likely to cause its death.The child dies
in consequence of such exposure.A may be separately
charged with and convicted of, offences under
sections 317 and 304 of the Indian Penal Code (45 of
1860).

(l) A dishonestly uses a forged document as genuine
evidence, in order to convict B, a public servant,
of an offence under section 167 of the Indian Penal
Code(45 of 1860).A may be separately charged with,
and convicted of, offences under sections 471 (read
with section 466) and 196 of that Code.

Illustration to sub-section (4)
(m) A commits robbery on B, and in doing so
voluntarily causes hurt to him.A may be separately
charged with, and convicted of, offences under
sections 323, 392 and 394 of the Indian Penal Code
(45 of 1860).